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Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone
Jaime Leifer writes "The cover of the June 1, 2009, issue of The New Yorker, entitled 'Finger Painting,' was drawn by Jorge Colombo entirely on his iPhone — a first for the magazine. Colombo, a New York-based artist and illustrator, uses the iPhone's Brushes application to vibrantly depict New York street scenes." There's a video recapitulating the creation of the piece, omitting all of the undos.
kdawson is just trying to make up for the dearth of Apple slashvertisements lately.
Of course the particular handheld devices you mentioned have to be plugged into a machine to work, or integrated into a tablet laptop, which isn't exactly something you can easily draw on while you stand in line for a few hours.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
How much longer until these phones replace a laptop for most of our day-to-day computing?
As long as it takes them to create one with a real keyboard, and a monitor that is at least as big as the one on my Acer Aspire.
The idea of a phone replacing your computer is probably really great if you're speculating from behind your iBook while sipping on a Mocha Frappacheeno, but for the people actually USING their computers? The ones traveling? The ones doing more than updating their twitter status?
Phones will not EVER replace their laptops (they will[do] supplement them).
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Read my journal, I've been documenting our polyamory for about eight years now. I was in Pali Paths in Hawaii for years. Look it up. I've had more women than you've even known, sad little man. I've been in three ways and orgies, and done things you don't even know the names of. You are the one with the virgin fixation, and the negative view of sexuality. You should get some counseling to help you deal with your Mommy issues, or you will never know intimacy with a woman.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Reading comprehension fail. Life is unfair to xerxesvii, as I clearly stated. He whines about mods in his sig, what a loser!
Life is unfair to me, too. I get way more than I deserve, what with all the women, the money, the brains, the education, the physical good looks and horse like stamina, the inheritance, the invitations to interesting parties, tons of friends, man, what could I have done to deserve all that? I mean, life is starting to bore me, there's no challenge, I just get everything I want, when I want it, without having to work for it.
But thank you for your interest in me and my life. I take it as a compliment when someone pays this much attention to me, really, you've made my day. The more you respond, the more important I know I am to you. Ahhhh, yeah. Keep it coming.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I thought it was more like shooting fish in a barrel. Please - don't ruin my fun. Firing rounds into man-children who have mental problems is 14 levels harder than this. Call it a guilty pleasure - without the guilt (and half the calories). This one's a corker! He's 5 minutes into my lunch and already lives in Hawaii and has orgies.
Fucking fantastic! Or mind-blowingly pathetic. Actually it can be all of these things and more.
"There are a lot of folks on Slashdot who try really, really hard to hate Apple and iPhones, but I think this story really is news for nerds, and really does matter. If you disagree, go click on another story."
Which is weird, because it's so easy. Why put in so much effort when all you need to do is dislike paying extra for an interface you find overrated and irritating?
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
Perhaps that's all he eats (in his imagination). Might explain his mood swings. If all I ate was pussy, I'd not only have breath like an italian fisherman, but I'd be plenty cranky all day.
I wonder if he's italian? I think we're connecting some important dots here.
Oh you mean like the 'real' artists who have been copying Marcel Duchamps' urinal for over 100 years, tingling all over at just how radical and unconventional they are? Give me a break. This is nothing more than marketing for both Apple and the artist. I'd be embarrassed to both have made the art and to be the magazine that is displaying it. Sad to say I subscribe to the New Yorker. If their writing had as little so show for it as this art I'd drop my subscription tomorrow.
There has been a great deal of technological hype in the news over the last 10 years (and maybe 100 years if I really investigated). Newspapers, magazines, tv and other media often don't understand a topic well. But they do see a 'hook' they can use to latch onto something they don't understand. So the media see a new Kindle and think it will save newspapers. Or twitter will save just about anything. 'Everyone knows: Live Goes Better with Twitter!'. Or in this case: 'Look at this: if you wanted to you could make a drawing on your teeny little iphone'. You wouldn't have any control over line because the screen is too small to allow any subtlety of hand movement, the way you can with a pen or pencil on a sheet of paper. And it's so small you can't see any detail, so you don't know how it will look when it's printed much larger. And the color is probably off and won't look like what it will when it's printed. But you can say you did it on a phone. That's all that counts. We've got a hook! Print it.
Something similar happened recently with birding and The World Series of Birding. Most media will ignore birding for an entire year or more. Then along comes the World Series of Birding, which has a familiar, measurable, sportlike aspect to it. That's a hook. So everybody covers The World Series of Birding. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just that it misses what birding is to most people. But normal birding doesn't have that hook.
Guess What again, you are STILL wrong!
Why bother
Actually You Are Wrong also!
Why bother